The Diocesan Cycling Club had a great weekend at the North Island Cycling Championships, held in Karapiro during the school holidays. It was the best results the club has seen in a long time, with great individual and team performances. Year 7 Indie Williams picked up three silvers over the course of the weekend – winning the individual silver road race and criterion and teamed up with Alianna Hay, Lily James and Annabelle Judd for silver in the TTT. Lily added a bronze to her collection in the U-14B category criterium and Lily Shanley and Sophia Hay added bronze medals in the 16B and U-17B categories. Senior A girls Kate Shanley, Arabella Tuck, Georgia Hair, Jess Finnegan and Isobel Fletcher came very close to a medal in fourth place in the team time trial. The whole team finished a credible fourth top girls’ school rankings.
The full results were as follows:
Road Race
U-13 Indie Williams 2nd Maddie Worrall 8th Alianna Hay 10th, Alice Wellington 14th Sophie Sella 18th
U-14 Annabelle Judd 12th, Lily James 17th
U-15 Lily Shanley 15th
U-16 Molly Sherrard 11th, Nika Miller 17th
U-17 Jess Finnegan 9th, Isobel Fletcher 16th
U-20 Arabella Tuck 4th, Georgia Hair 11th, Kate Shanley 16th
Criterium
U-13B Alice Wellington 4th, Sophie Sella 10th
U-13A Indie Williams 2nd Alianna Hay 5th, Maddie Worrall 7th
U-14B Lily James 2nd
U-14A Annabelle Judd 14th
U-15B Nika Miller 7th
U-15A Molly Sherrard 12th
U-16B Lily Shanley 3rd
U-17B Sophia Hay 3rd Alex Young 9th
U-17A Jess Finnegan 6th Alex Young 32nd
U-20A Kate Shanley 9th Arabella Tuck 11th Georgia Hair 14th
Team Time Trial
Intermediate A 2nd; Intermediate B 8th
Senior A 4th; Senior B 12th
Congratulations to all the girls on their wonderful performances, and to coaches and parents for all their help and support.
